Wikipedia to launch a new service to make big tech companies pay for their content

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The Wikimedia Foundation said that Enterprise 'isn't forcing Big Tech to pay' for their service, but Wikipedia 'requires revenue growth'.

, Enterprise, for companies that use Wikipedia data later this year. However, it stated that it won’t change how Wikipedia currently works.and Facebook. It will include “a premium version” of Wikipedia’s API—a tool that lets you scrape and re-host Wikipedia articles. Paying customers could get data delivered faster or formatted to meet their needs or even get new options for sorting and posting it.

“We have a big job ahead of us, no doubt about it,” said Lisa Seitz-Gruwell, Wikimedia foundation’s chief revenue officer.

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